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Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1887-08-10
Wheat and the World.

From the English Illustrated Magazine.
Could imperial Rome have only
grown sufficient wheat in Italy to have
fed her legions Caesar would still be
master of three-fourths of the earth.
Rome thought more in her latter days
Of grapes ard oysters, and mullets
that change color as they die, and
singing girls and flute playing, and
cynic verse of Horace, anythingrather
than corn. Rome is no more, ana the
lords Of the world are they who have
mastership of wheat. We have the
mastership at this hour by dint of
gold and our 1OO-ton guns, but they
are telling our farmers to cast
aside their corn and grow tobacco and
fruit and anything else that can be
thought of in preference. The gold is
slipping away. These sacks in the
market, open to all to thrust their
hands in, are not sacks OF corn, but of
golden sovereigns, half sovereigns, new
George and dragon, old George and the
dragon, Sydney mint sovereigns, half
sovereigns. napoleons, halfnapoleons,
Belgium gold, German gold, italian
gold, gold scraped and scratched and
gathered together like old rags,
from door to door. Sacks
full of gold, verify may say that all
the gold poured out from the Austral.
ian fields, every pennyweight of it,
hundreds of tons, all shipped over to
the sea of India, Australia, South
Africa, Egypt, and, above all, Amer
lea, to buy wheat. 1t was said that
Pompey and his sons covered the
great earth with their bones, for each
one died in g. different quarter OF the
world, but now he would want two
more sons tor Australia and America,
the two new quarters which are now
at work blowing, sowing, reaping,
without month sintermission, grow.
ing corn for US. When you buy bag
of flour at the bakers you pay spence
over the counter, a very simple trans
action. Still you do not expect to
get even that little bag of flour for
your pence goes over the
counter in to somebody else's till. Con-
slider now the broad ocean as the
counter, yourself to represent 35, OOO,-
900 of English people buying sixteen,
seventeen or eighteen million quarters
of wheat from the nations opposite,
and paying for. it in shiploads of gold.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1887-08-10
APerilous Postponement.

To postpone. when the duty for immediate
action Is clear, is always unwise. Especially
is it 30 when increasing iIl-health calls for a
resort to medication. Diseases OF the kidneys
and bladder are often Of swift growth-always
Of fatal tendency If not combatted at the out
set. We have all--even those of us who are
not remarkably well instructed-heard some
thing of the danger attending Brights disease.
diabetes, and other diseases of the kidneys or
bladder Let no one be foolhardy enough to
procrastinate if he perceives the renal organs
to be inactive. Hostetters Stom ach BfUters
are peculiarly adapted to overcome this in
action, to sufficiently stimulate without ex-
citing, the kidneys and bladder. Infinitely 10
this diuretic to be preferred to the impure and
fiery stimulants of commerce, which prove
the bane of unwary persons with tendency
to renal troubles They are likewise incom-
parable for dyspepsia. debility. fever and aqua
and biliouspeen
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1887-08-10
Industries in Poland.
From the Detroit Free Press.


There has been remarkable devel-
opment in the manufacturing indus
try of Poland, during the past few
years. According to the report Of Mr..
Grant, British consul at Warsaw,
there were in 1884 over $500 facto-
ries of one kind or another in the
kingdom, employing LOS, 800 hands,
while twelve years before the number
employed was but 10000. Largefor-
tunes are being made by the manufac
turers, who are principally Germans
and Polish Jews. LODI is the Polish
Manchester The place has grown from
a small place of 2O,O population in
1860 to agreat manufacturing city of
10000 souls, and containing 165
mills and factories, employing 20, 900
hands. The mills of LODI work up
every year about $4,000 bales OF cot
ton. Sixty per cent. of thepopulation
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1887-08-10
The Trade in Old Hats.

From the New York Mail and Express.
"Anny auld hats! Amy auld
hats!"
This cry may be heard every day
in this city, and many are disposed
to pity the ragged old merchants VINO
wander along giving it utterance. Yet
these itinerant hatters are not SO
much to be pitied after all. Many otth
hats they carry slung in bag over
their shoulders have cost them moth
ing, while the residue have been pur-
chased for pittance. There Is q
market for old hats in New York, and
large one, too. There are several
wholesale dealers in the trade whose
yearly profits make considerable
figure. One of the men has an estab'
lishment in q cellar on Fourth
Avenue just back of the Star Theater.
He may be seen every day sitting on
stool at the head of the steep steps
leading to his store-an old man,
shabbily dressed, with wrinkled,
leathery features, and thin, long, gray
hair struggling over STOPPING
shoulders.
"This is g. pretty good stand for g.
retail business in old hats, The said to
q Mail and Express reporter, 'for
right yonder on the Rialto / have
many customers. Almost every day
a score of busted actors come here to
be fitted out in new head-gear. They
usually trade off their old hats with g.
quarter or half thrown in, and |
fit them out in killing shape Actors
are my best retail patrons. / do q
wholesale business also but that is
mostly trading off lot OF old hats
with some other dealer. will buy,
sell, trade or barter, with any one
who wants to deal with me-"
"What style of hat brings you the
largest profit?"
High silk hats are the most desir-
able. No matter how battered they
are when brought here, can find q
place for 'em."
Glow much do you pay for old
hats?"
"That depends upon how many
there are, and who brings them here.
[ would rather buy from walking
merchant han from any one else.
know they don't pay much and can
sell cheap. An old high silk hat is
worth 15c or zoe, and an old straw
hat is worth SC. These, when re-
vamped, will bring g. profit OF about
100 to $50 per can't.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1887-08-10

$50 men, all of whom work very hard.
sThemorning train leaves at 4 A. NJ, but
they are required to be on hand two
hours earlier and get their work ready,
and they are kept busy until they
reach Syracuse where they are re-
lieved. and the next day resume work
on g. return train. Some who are
very available in other points find the
service too hard for health, especially
when liable to kidney disease or YER
tigo. A clear head, strong and adroit
muscle, and rapid calculation are req
uisite and hence few become perman-
emily successful. In fact, OF all the
public servants there are few who so
thoroughly. earn their money as the
railway postal clerk.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1887-08-10
Working Animals.
From the Nineteenth Century.

From the Nineteenth Century.
1t Is mistake to suppose that ami
mails will continue instinctively to
toll and work, to exert their muscles
and energies without reference to
pleasure. They are by no means in
sensible to the charms of repose, and
are naturally lazy, just to the
same extent DIS men are
naturally lazy. So long as exer-
ton is necessary to existence or gives
them enjoyment, they will exert them
selves; when they can exist and enjoy
themselves without exertion, they
cease to exert themselves. Whenever
we see animals habitually performing
any act or any movement which in
wolves trouble or exertion we may be
quite certain that, if the act Or move
ment is not essential, it is pleasurable.
If it were not accompanied by pleasur-
ed. The act Of collecting honey is APP
parently accompanied by more
trouble than pleasure. So long as it
is necessary to existence it is continu-
ed by force OF what we shall call pub
lie opinion or municipal law; but
transport hive Of bees to g. climate
where nature provides them with
honey all the year round and in three
or four years they cease to store it.
The act is troublesome and is discon-
tinued when no longer necessary. The
slave-making ants are g. stronger ex-
ample-the Polyergus, having provId-
ed itself with slaves, who perform all
the necessary work of life, who pro-
vids it with food and actually feed it.,
is now gradually divesting itself of
every instinct and dies of starvation
If deprived of it's assistant.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1887-08-10
"ConsumptIun Cure ~

would be a truthful name to give to Dr.
Pierce's Golden Medical Discovery" the
most efficacious medicine yet discovered for
arresting the early development of pulmon-
airy disease. But consumption cure F"
would not sufficiently indicate the scope of
its influence and usefulness In all the many
diseases which spring from a arrangement
of the liver and blood the " Discovery" is a
safe and sure specific. Of all druggists.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1887-08-10

You've Frank Ives, while sitting with
party of friends at window in the
third story Of building in Des Moines
playfully threatened to fall backward to
scare the girls present. Finally he said !:
Now [ am going. sure" and he was
right, for he lost his balance, fell through
an awning to the pavement and broke
his neck.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1887-08-10
He Delivered the Eggs 0. X.
From the Brunswick telegraph.

A large Newfoundland dog in Fox
croft, Me-, received g. basket Of eggs
from his master to be carried across
the bridge to Dover, with a note in it
explanatory to the party to whom
the eggs were sent. The Newfound-
land trotted with a. high head across
the bridge, to be received on the Dover
side by a pack of yelling ours, who en-.
deavored to annoy him. The saga
cious animal bore the insults as long
as he could, and then placed the bas-
ket in g. safe place at one side of the
road; the next move was to give that
pack tremendous thrashing; after
which he took up his basket and de-
livered the eggs and returned to his
master.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1887-08-10

AT Union Point, Ca, is maidstone
for which the owner wants 1925, 900. It
has effected marvellous cures. Scattered
over the state there are at least 100 of
these stones, but the Union Point pebble
heads them all in estimated value
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1887-08-10

For dyspepsia, indigestion, depression of
spirits and general debility, in their various
forms, also as preventative against fever
and ague and other intermittent fevers, the
"Ferro-Phosphorated Elixir of Calisaya,"
made by Hazard, Hazard & Co., New York,
and sold by all druggists, is the best tonic;
and for patients recovering from fever or
other sickness, it has no equal.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1887-08-10

How often is the light Of the household
clouded by signs of melancholy or irritable
ity on the part of the ladies. Yet they are
not to be blamed, for they are the result of
ailments peculiar to that sex, which men
know not of. But the cause may be re-
moved and Joy restored by the use Of DR..
Pierce's "Favorite Prescription" which, as
tonic and nervine for debilitated women,
is certain, safe and pleasant. 1t is beyond
all compare the great healer of women.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1887-08-10
WITHIN THE HEART.

Within on lives of conscious care
There lies another, fair and sweet;
All gracious sanctlties are there,
And trust, and conservation mete;
A heaven that lieth not apart,
A spirit world within the heart.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1887-08-10

R. w. TANs1LL & Co., Chicago:
The "Tansill's Punch sc cigars are
booming. Never sold so many in so short
time. viii try and give you another order
this month. P. & Al. MILLARD, Ellis
burg n Y
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1887-08-10
Woman and Her Diseases

is the title of a large illustrated treatise, by
DR.. r. V. Pierce, Buffalo, n. Y, sent to any
address for ten cents in stamps. 1t teaches
successful selftreatment
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1887-08-10

E. AVERY, of Silver Creek, N. Y,
kicked at pail, missed his kick, fell,
and broke an arm.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1887-08-10

STRAIGHTEN your old boots and shoes
with Lyons Heel Stiffners, and wear them
again.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1887-08-10

are OF German nationality, and about
three-fourths of this proportion have
been naturalized. as Russian subjects.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1887-08-10

BEST, easiest to use and cheapest. Piso's
remedy for Catarrh. BY druggists. SO
cents.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1887-08-10

CHARLOTTE CUsBKAE was the daugh.
ter of poo- people.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1887-08-10
OR A CASE OF cATARRH WHICH THEY CAN NOT CURE.
/ UNTOLD AGONY
/ FROM GkTARRH.

|" Prof W. HAusNER, the famous mesrner-
IINTfn EnnHV list, of Ithaca, ". 2, writes Some
4 oHlVLn AooHi I suffered untold agony
R asvg a s ag MY s ana asg
E- must die. My such bad
would
could barely speak whisper morning my cough
throat would almost strange
Sages Remedy three months
mai
CONSTANTLY s.: No:
HAWKING and hardly breathe breathe .
Splitting ROntbs s could breathe through
H-.u-~@@@ Luckily advised try
Sage's Catarrh Remedy, q well
catarrh
tured only it fair trial
astounding results q permanent
ROBBINS, Runyan p O.. Columbia Co.
lHHEE knTTjEN Pd my daughter had
ah'.. WI ih@o she five Old badly. I
nRTlnnu Sages Catarrh Remedy
JUNE UAIRnnn. procured a bottle for
-@-- that it helped her; q third bottle
permanent eighteen years old and SOUND
and hearty"
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1887-08-10

Pellets operate without disturbance the system.
eticalIy sealed. Always fresh and reliable. Z
little Pellets give the most perfect satisfaction.
WILLIAM RAhCH Esq. of Mnden, Kearney Co,raty
HnIS Nebraska, writes: Il troubled with bols for
LULU thirty Four afflicted
CURED them that could not walk bought bottles
Ss1e of Dr. Pierces Pleasant Purgatve Pellets
-. one Pellet after each meal, till all gone. By
been troubled with sick headache. When
take Pellets and relieved the
The PRlsszs T 9s s4
1 ."- --~' / without question the cathartic
EkTukpT1n sold. They also efficient
1 oRiHRiiIiUs 4 We have them
for in family, and keep them in
the house all the time"
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1887-08-10
SICK HEADACHE

Bilious Headache, Dizziness. Con-
stipatiOn. IndigestiOn, Bilious
Attacks, and all arrangements of the
stomach and bowels, are promptly relieved
and permanently cured by the use of DR..
Pierces Pleasant Purgative Pellets. In ex-
Pellets over an great q variety Of disoases
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1887-08-10

that every day, toward
I could barely speak a
ing and clearing of m!
use of DR.. Sage's Gaia
man, and the cure has
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1887-08-10

DR.. Sage's Catarrh J
lieve it to be the {
tured, and one has
astounding results q
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1887-04-20
TIE Road TO Hazelton

j. ". McNeal and f. T. Vincent
went up to Wichita last Saturday to
learn what they could about the propos-
ed extension of the st. Louis, Fort
Scott and Wichita railroad from Hazel
ton to Medicine Lodge. They met Mr..
Richards, manager of the road, Col.
Murdoch and others, well posted
and came home we'll satisfied
with their trip. Surveyors will
soon look over the line from Hazel
ton to Medicine Lodge, and from this
place west and southwest. The pro-
file of the survey lately made south
west from here will be forwarded to Mr..
Richards, and other information will
be furnished him. All of this is i'll ac-
cordance with the wishes Of Mr.. Gould
who has been considering the POSSIBLE
ity of getting some line of his railroad
system into Medicine Lodge.
The probability is that this city and
township and Nippawalla township
south of here, will be asked to vote aid
to the proposed Hazelton extension
but just now we cannot think of bet.
ter investment that could be made.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1887-04-20
Civ Matters.


AT a special meeting of the city
council, Monday evening, April 18th
Mayor Edwards announced his ap-
pointments, which were at once con-
firmed by the council, as follows:
City marshal, city clerk and street
commissioner, Geo. w. Horney.
City treasurer, Harry A. Brown.
The Office of city counsellor or attor-
ney is now held by A. L. Noble, and
no change was made.
The idea in consolidating the offices
of marshal, city clerk and street COM
missioner was to save expense. AT
present, the city has no money in its
treasury; no tax levy for city purposes
having been made last year. Mr.. Hor-
ney is competent to fill the three offices
to the satisfaction of everyone.
The city printing for the year was
awarded to the Medicine Lodge Cresset
at legal rates.
The committee appointed to report
on the ACCESSIBILITY of revising the city
ordinances asked for further time.
which was granted.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1887-04-20
Lafast Railroad Talk

The board of trade met last night TO
consider railroad matters. Messrs.
McNeal and Vincent, who went to
Wichita to see the st. Louis. Fort Scott
and Wichita people made their report,
which was to the effect that that road
would be extended here from Hazelton
under certain circumstances. AS sug-
gested by Mr.. Richards, manager of
that road. steps were taken last night
toward finding an outlet from this city
west or southwest. Sheriff Nelson and
Surveyors Hill and Aber were appoint
ed committee to lay off ON map two
practicable routes from this city-one
west by way of Sun City to Ashland
and the other southwest to Aetna, CO.
manche City and Englewood. This
map is then TO be forwarded to Mr..
Richards together with the profile of
the survey lately made southwest
from this city, and In a few days he is
to send competent engineer here to go
over the two routes as laid out on the
maps. This is all in accordance with
instructions received by Mr.. Richards
from Mr.. Gould, during his trip west,
last week.
The attention of Mr.. Gould had been
called to the importance of invading
the rich and fertile Medicine valley, by
a friend of Medicine Lodge, Col. Muir
dock, of the Wichita Eagle, some time
since, and now he sees the Importance
of such an invasion at once.
In conversation with gentleman,
during his last trip west, Mr.. Gould
said that he proposed to extend one of
his lines from the northeast to Medi-
cine Lodge and another from the south
east, and unite the two at this point.
He was asked if the road from the
northeast would be branch of the ID.
NJ. and A. or the Kansas and Panhan-
die, but he would not say which of
these roads he would extend.
1t is also known that representative
of the Missouri Pacific system has
lately been over the line of the Kansas
and Panhandle subsidies, carefully not
ing the official records. 1t is said that
this action indicates that MIR. Gould
will take up the Kansas and Panhan-
handle subsidies.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1887-04-20
Hazelton Happenings.

The trial of King, Bell and Farmer,
charged with breaking the windows in
Chas. Perkins house was ended Thurs
day, resulting in defendants being
found guilty and fined So5 each. They
were defended by J. a. McPhee of this
place and G. w. Vickers Of Medicine
Lodge. The State was represented by
w. S. Denton, of your city. The case
was appealed. :. Last week J. w. and
M. L. Harrington were called to Him
ois to the bedside of their sister, who
died soon after their arrival. !. Judge
Stevens and County Attorney Jones
were here Saturday, looking after the
interests of Barber county. Ellis
Bros. have the machinery here for their
new paper. "A horse race on Main
street occurred Friday, and it is safe to
say that the participants had not read
the batch Of city ordinances. "A heavy
rain. lasting four hours, fell here Satur-
day, and the performance was repeated
on Sunday. The ground is in fine or
der and tue farmers have no excuse fol
sitting around on goods boxes and
swearing. =. jay Gould and party pass
ed through here Friday, but did not
stop and shake hands. 1t appears that
he might at least speak to US after VIC
have built his road for him. :. The gen.
eral understanding here is that the st
Louis, Fort Scott and Wichita railroad
win be extended from here to Medicine
Lodge at an early daY. CITIZEN.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1887-04-20
Union Settlement.

The fear of a drought is over and the
faces of the farmers are now wreathed
with smiles of contentment. Many are
through planting corn. =. "A sister of
Miss Mary Wheat arrived here lately
from Boone, Iowa. when she left there,
March 18th, snow was two feet deep on
the level. Mr.. Kerschner and family
left here last week for Colorado to take
up homesteads. Charlie Schuneman,
who returned lately from Iowa, bought
the Kerschner place and will make a
stock farm of it.. d. Sunday school will
be organized on the oath at Mr.. Rine's
place. j. Q. Wheat lost fine COW by
falling from a high embankment.
Busy BODY.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1887-04-20

buy your tickets so thntyou can come over
the Southern Kansas railroad from Kansas
City. IL you are only on an exploring trip, buy
an Explorers ticket To- Independence. Rams,
over the Southern Kansas railway, which en-
titles you Co all the privileges of n first-class
Ticket, and can be purchased at any Of the prin-
cipal ticket Ofhces east Of the Missouri river.
On arrival NJ Kansas City these tickets can be
exchanged at the ONCE Of II. Y. Moss, opposite
the Union Depot, Gu payment OF s. for round
trip ticket reading 10 Medicine Lodge and re-
turn, with tho privilege Of stopping on at ell
intermediate STATIONS II you are coming here
TO stay, and want To bring your household
goOda, agricultural implements and livestock
with you, tho rate will be $40 per car load frt m
Kansas City 10 Medicine Lodge; or " you have
not a carload, the rate will be % cents per
hundred.
For further information write 20 or call on
4. IL. HYNEs. General Freight aud Passenger
Agent, Lawrence, kane.
O.. l.. McDONAUGH, ll6 ". Fourth 81. 81. Louis.
ED. CONAN. Room ., Union Depot. Kansas City.
w. ID. HYNEs, % y Illinois u. indianapolis, Ind.
LAKE HALDERNAN, ~ r. Main st. ~. Wayne, Ind.
I'm. McDoSAUuU, iiG ". Fourth street 81. Louis.
J. q. HAzELTON .............. jamestown ~. 4.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1887-04-20
SPRING CTOTHTNG.

Our Stock of Spring Clothing is here, and
an inspection of it will convince anyone that il
is made up of rare bargains. Purchased for
SPOT CASH, and selected for this market, it lie
what the people want now. In the tmatter of
Cheap Suits we can discount all competition.
Think of full suit, good enough for Sunday
wear. for only FIVE DOLLARS But this is
not all. We have suits ranging in price from
IS to S40-thc latter being equal to the best
tailor-made. Come in, and we will furnish you
a complete outfit, very cheap.
40 STANDIFoRD, YoUMASs & EIDRED.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1887-04-20
OUR SPRING STOCK.

The ladies, especially, are reminded that oul
Spring Stock of Dry Goods ishere. We desire
more especially to call attention to the elegant
line of Spring Suitings and Dress Goods, OF
the latest patterns. that we are now Offering
1t is seldom that such opportunities are offered
as we met when selecting this stock; and now
we propose that our customers shall have the
benefit of our good fortune. Come in and look
over the Spring Styles, whether you desire to
purchase or not.
40 STANDIFoRD, YoUMANs & EIDRED.